Recent News

Amy T. (Garcia) Ford, a 1996 East Central University alum who has spent the almost 11 years as ECU’s assistant vice president and director of communications and marketing, has been called upon to restore ECU’s Office of Institutional Advancement.

The East Central University campus and offices will be closed for the holidays from Monday, Dec. 18 through Monday, Jan. 1, 2018. Campus offices will reopen on Tuesday, Jan. 2, at 8 a.m. Classes resume at ECU on Tuesday, Jan. 16, at 8 a.m. ECU’s Linscheid Library will be closed from Saturday, Dec. 16-Monday, Jan. 1, 2018. The library will reopen on Tuesday, Jan. 2, at 8 a.m. The Tommy Hewett Wellness Center will be open Monday-Friday, outside of Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, from 8 a.m.-noon and 3 p.m.-7 p.m. each day, Monday through Friday. It will not be open on weekends.

Sarah Garcia, secretary to the dean in East Central University’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, is the recipient of the Saundra Mace Award from the Oklahoma Political Science Association.

Garcia, who has worked at ECU for more than 30 years and is a graduate of the university, recently accepted the award at the OPSA’s Awards Banquet at the Chickasaw Cultural Center in Sulphur

Maranda Robin Clymer, an East Central University physics major from Ada, won Best Undergraduate Paper and the Outstanding Undergraduate Oral Presentation Award for Physical Sciences at the 106th Technical Meeting of the Oklahoma Academy of Science Collegiate Academy Awards for 2017.

Clymer’s winning presentation was entitled “The Effects of Temperature of the Attenuation Coefficient of Ultrasound.”

Rhonda Pruett is hoping to turn a heartbreaking situation into an exciting one as she prepares to attend East Central University this spring.

Pruett, a non-traditional student, resident of Lexington, Oklahoma and an elementary special education teacher for the Bethel Schools in the Shawnee area, was working hard on a master’s of counseling degree at St. Gregory’s University when she was blindsided by some awful news on Nov. 8.

East Central University Director of Athletics Dr. Jeff Williams has announced the hiring of Al Johnson as the 19th head coach for the Tiger football program and just the fourth in the NCAA era, since 1997.

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